IV) Our ending must involve a twist or reveal which shows the EPIC and DEVASTATING scale of world pollution.

Our hero must show an attitude change which shows his intention to take this technology, which has helped him restore his office to working order, and to use it to clean up his world.

He cleans his own environment first, then sets an intention to clean his world.

V) WHAT DOES THE FUTURE LOOK LIKE?

What does a future without sustainability look like?

There have been advances in technology... BUT they have not been used sustainably. >>>>[[[AVOID OLD OUTDATED TECHNOLOGIES LIKE OLD COMPUTERS, ADOBE SPECIFICALLY MENTIONED THIS]]<<<<

Compromise between technology and mess is Star Wars. Outdated view of technology. In his future this technology is old and weathered.

Blade Runner

Fifth Element

Shots/Gags:

Establishing shot: a box slides into place. RE-D printer! Quick cuts. A box cutter sliding across tape, the device being set on the desk.

First GAG: Our hero pushes the packaging of the box into the device and out pops a pencil. He is excited, he gets and idea.

Second GAG: Quick cuts of aluminum and rubber being flying into the device. Out comes a futuristic bike.

Third GAG: Our hero pushes, pulls and shoves every last bit of remaining garbage into his re-de printer, comically cramming more material than can possibly fit, to the point that the printer physically swells with the amount of material. We should feel like we are afraid its going to break. The magic is “Mary Poppins” style at this point, way more material is going in than should ever be able to fit. Everything will burst out at once in one epic explosion of creation. From out of shot above the camera the new items will begin to fall, first a chair which our hero will sit in, then the rest of the office which will comically and unbelievably fall perfectly into place in one impact that shakes our hero in his chair. The icing on this gag will be a coffee cup which lands on his desk and fills with coffee.

Conclusion/twist: In the final scene our hero, reclining in his chair with his hands folded above his head, spins in his chair to face a large window which we have not looked through before. We imagine the final shot being his face looking out over the desolation of the world, with a subtle change of expression in which we see his change of attitude and intention. Gil had the idea of a shot in which we are on the outside looking in, and we see his face in the window and the messy world reflected in the glass (imagine diesel powered flying cars and futuristic skyscrapers covered in garbage).

Other possible gags:

Desk out of Garbage

Finds lost cat in clutter

Light fixture jets out and flies into ceiling

****Old chair into designer chair “ergonomic”

Paper into compost into pots into plants, tomatoes or flowers or wheat grass for his smoothie